🇷🇼 Rwanda
Orderly, hilly and green: clean streets, polite queues and gorilla permits that cost plenty but deliver rare encounters in volcanic forest.
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🇷🇼 Rwanda at a glance
Orderly, hilly and green: clean streets, polite queues and gorilla permits that cost plenty but deliver rare encounters in volcanic forest.
Who it suits
Wildlife travellers who value primates, safety and small distances.
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What the season feels like
June to September and December to February are driest, easing trekking; March to May's long rains turn trails muddy.
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What Rwanda is known for
- Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes NP
- Kigali Genocide Memorial
- Chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest
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